Bruno Pontecorvo Prize

The Bruno Pontecorvo Prize (Russian: Премия имени Бруно Понтекорво) is an award for elementary particle physics, established in 1995 by the JINR in Dubna to commemorate Bruno Pontecorvo.[1] The prize is mainly given for neutrino physics, which was Pontecorvo's principal research field, and usually to a single scientist. It is offered internationally every year.

Not to be confused with Glasgow University's Guido Pontecorvo Prize for genetics.

Winners

Year	Name	Institution	Recognition	Notes
2018	Francis Halzen	University of Wisconsin, Madison	for significant contribution to the IceCube detector construction and experimental discovery of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos	[2]
2017	Gianluigi Fogli	University of Bari and INFN, Bari, Italy	for their pioneering contribution to the development of global analysis of neutrino oscillation data from different experiments	[3]
	Eligio Lisi	INFN, Bari, Italy
2016	Wang Yifang	IHEP, Beijing, China	for his contribution to the Daya Bay experiment	[4][5]
	Soo-Bong Kim	National University of Seoul, South Korea	for his contribution to the RENO experiment	[4] [6][5]
	Kōichirō Nishikawa	KEK, Tsukuba, Japan	for his contribution to the T2K experiment	[4][5]
2015	Gianpaolo Bellini	INFN, Frascati, Italy and University of Milan, Italy	for his outstanding contribution to the development of detection methods for low-energy neutrinos, their realization in the Borexino detector, and the important results on solar and geoneutrinos provided by the experiment	[7]
2014	Grigory V. Domogatsky	INR, Moscow, Russia	for his outstanding contribution to the development of neutrino astronomy and the astrophysics of high-energy neutrinos; in particular, his pioneering work to develop a method for detecting high-energy neutrinos using an underwater detector and create an operational facility at the Baikal Deep Underwater Neutrino Telescope	[8]
2013	Luciano Maiani	University of Rome, Italy	for outstanding contributions to the physics of elemental particles, in particular to the physics of weak interactions and neutrinos	[9]
2012	Ettore Fiorini	University of Milan, Italy	for his outstanding contribution to the search for neutrino-free double beta decay	[10]
2011	Stanley Wojcicki	Fermilab, IL and Stanford University, CA	for his outstanding contribution to the creation of the MINOS detector, for new results obtained in the field of particle physics and, especially, in the field of neutrino oscillations	[11]
2010	Yōichirō Suzuki	Kamioka Observatory, Japan, and IPMU, Japan	for his contributions to the detection of atmospheric and solar neutrino oscillations in the Super Kamiokande collaboration	[12]
	Sergey Petcov	SISSA, Trieste, and INFN, Trieste, Italy	for research on the understanding of the interactions of neutrinos with matter and the properties of Majorana neutrinos	[13]
2009	Alexander D. Dolgov	ITEP, Moscow, Russia	for fundamental contributions to the understanding of neutrino oscillations and neutrino kinetics in cosmology	[14]
	Henry W. Sobel	University of California, Irvine	for important contributions to the experimental study of neutrino oscillations	[14][15]
2008	Valery Rubakov	INR, Moscow, Russia	for his essential contributions to the study of close interrelation among particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology, and to the elaboration of a fundamentally new theory of physical space	[16]
2007	Antonino Zichichi	University of Bologna/INFN, Italy, and CERN, Geneva, Switzerland	for his fundamental contributions to the creation of the largest underground Gran Sasso National Laboratory and to the construction of large-scale facilities for experimental studies of solar and accelerator neutrinos	[17]
2006	Atsuto Suzuki	KEK, Tsukuba, Japan	for the discovery of reactor antineutrino oscillations and detection of geoantineutrinos in the KamLAND experiment	[18]
2005	Alexei Y. Smirnov Stanislav P. Mikheyev Lincoln Wolfenstein	ICTP, Trieste, Italy INR, Moscow, Russia Carnegie Mellon University, PA	for the prediction and study of matter effects on neutrino oscillations, known as the Mikheyev–Smirnov–Wolfenstein effect	[19]
2004	Arthur B. McDonald	Royal Military College of Canada	for the evidence of solar neutrino oscillations in the SNO experiment at Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, Canada	[20]
2003	Yōji Totsuka	KEK, Tsukuba, Japan	for his outstanding contribution to the discovery of atmospheric muon-neutrino oscillations	[21]
2002	Samoil Mihelevich Bilenky	JINR, Dubna, Russia	for theoretical investigations of neutrino oscillations	[22]
2001	Nicholas Samios	Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY	for contributions both as a researcher and as a scientific administrator; in particular, for the discovery of the phi meson and the omega minus hyperon	[23]
2000	Vladimir Nikolaievich Gavrin	INR, Moscow, Russia	for their outstanding contributions to solar neutrino research using the gallium germanium method at the Baksan Neutrino Observatory	[24]
	Georgiy Zatsepin	INR, Moscow, Russia
1999	Raymond Davis	Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY	for his outstanding achievements in developing the chlorine-argon method for solar neutrino detection	[25]
1998	Vladimir M. Lobashev	INR, Moscow, Russia	for contributions to the physics of weak interaction	[26]
1997	Klaus Winter	CERN, Geneva, Switzerland	for his experimental research in the field of neutrino physics at accelerators	[27]
1996	Lev Okun	ITEP, Moscow, Russia	for elementary particle physics	[28]
	Semyon Gershtein	Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology	for theoretical research in the field of electroweak interactions
1995	Ugo Amaldi	CERN, Geneva, Switzerland	for his significant contribution to studies in the physics of weak interactions	[1]

See also

• List of physics awards

References

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